Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

["Alain Black" <hippy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Lewis [mailto:rll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:44 PM
> To: Suse-Linux-E (E-mail)
> Subject: [SLE] Video, keyboard and mouse dies requiring reboot
> 
> A month or so back during updates from SUSE I started having problems.
> 
> I am wondering if any of you are configured like I am and might have
> observed this bug.
> 
> I am running SUSE 10.1.  I also run the NVIDIA 8774 driver.
> 
> I DO NOT see problems when only one person is logged on.
> 
> However, two people use this machine such that one is on F7 and
> the other person is on F8.  So switches to the two different
> environments happen multiple times a day.
> 
> After about 5-12 hours one of the users starts seeing white tiny
> dots at the very top edge of their desktop.  Within a few minutes
> (and especially if an F-key switch takes place) the keyboard stops
> working and the mouse and the screen goes away. (I need to describe
> what the screen looks like when it goes away but I can't at the moment).
> 
> I can login with ssh from another machine and everything looks ok,
> except that "top" reports that X is using 100% of the resources.
> I usually do a reboot at that point and then the machine works again,
> usually for several hours.
> 
> I have a gut feeling that this started when Xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-
> 50.24.rpm
> was delivered via the software updater mechanism.  I notice that Xorg
> now has
> version 7.1 available but I would prefer to try that via a SUSE delivery
> than to do it myself.  If I prove that it is the X server I wonder how I
> can get SUSE to release the newer one?
> 
> Questions:  Is anyone out there configured to have two or more desktop
> users?
>             Has anyone seen this behavior?
>             Should I write the Xorg people?
> 
> I know that I need to dig deeper and get more facts but was hopeful that
> someone might
> have seen this and solved it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
> 
> 
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I've actually seen that with SLES8 and KDE.  Couldn't tell you the version
of KDE as it's at work and I'm not.

I found that if I just killed the X process that was eating a CPU, it would
take me back to the graphical login screen, and all would be fine.

Not much in the way of solving your problem, but at least it might save you
a reboot during the day.

-Alain.